It wasn’t so long ago that the typical American home had a telephone on the wall and a typewriter in the den. Today these tools of communication have been replaced by cell phones, tablets and laptops streaming videos and games…

One week years ago, when my third-born was 2 years 10 months old, my husband and I noticed he was being more opinionated and defiant than usual. When I picked him up from child care that Thursday afternoon, I asked…

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times (2/3/19, Pamela Paul, “Let Children Get Bored Again”) gave me a lot to think about. When my children were young they would sometimes say they were bored. My response was, ‘Well…